Mato
Mato is a name with a single cultural origin: Croatian.
- Croatian
Meaning & Origin of Mato
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Mato is a name with a single cultural origin: Croatian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Croatian
The Story of Mato
The earliest SSA record of Mato as a baby boy name dates back to 2001, when 5 babies received it. 2007 was its biggest year on record, with 9 newborns named Mato — #8,173 in the national rankings. About 41% of every Mato on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Mato last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 74 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Mato
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Mato. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Mato
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About the name Mato
Mato is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2001 and has accumulated 74 births in the dataset. Mato's peak popularity came in 2007 when it ranked #8,173. Use the chart and map above to compare Mato's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.